29 July 2013 – Hugh Ryan 4
I founded the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History by accident. Originally, the idea was for a one-night party in my apartment in January of 2011, designed to create a for-us, by-us space where queer people could join together to celebrate ourselves as a valid public, worthy of speaking to; a valid subject, worthy of speaking about; and a valid authority, worthy of speaking on our own terms. Read More
25 July 2013 – Rebecca Shrum 3
The American Historical Association created a great deal of discussion this week with a statement that “strongly encourages graduate programs and university libraries to adopt a policy that allows the embargoing of completed history PhD dissertations in digital form for as many as six years.” Read More
23 July 2013 – editors
AWARDS: Organization of American Historians announces its annual awards, including these awards applicable to public historians: Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award, Friend of History Award, Arline Custer Memorial Award.
DEADLINE: Sept. 10, 2013
See all awards on the OAH website. Read More
22 July 2013 – David Rotenstein 12
In 1975 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development designated a one-square-mile part of Decatur, Georgia an Urban Homesteading Demonstration Program neighborhood. The designation meant that the city’s housing authority could sell distressed properties in its inventory to qualified buyers for one dollar. Read More
18 July 2013 – Briann Greenfield 9
I teach a course in material culture studies, so I am in the habit of using historic artifacts to think about our changing relationship with the environment. But nothing made this lesson clearer to me than a 1950s Hotpoint refrigerator.
When I acquired the refrigerator it was over 50 years old and looked it–there were dents, scratches, and rust decorating its exterior. Read More
17 July 2013 – editors
CFP: “Archaeoacoustics: The Archaeology of Sound,” Feb. 19-22, 2014, Malta
DEADLINE: Sept. 1, 2013
CFP: “Reconsidering Roots: Observations on the 40th Anniversary of a TV Mini-Series that Changed the Way We Understood American Slavery”
Seeking essays that interrogate the historical impact of Roots, as well as those that assess its place in contemporary U.S. Read More
15 July 2013 – Kevin Murphy
Editor’s Note: This piece continues a series of posts related to the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, a collaboration of public history programs across the country to raise awareness of the long history of the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay and foster dialogue on its future. Read More
12 July 2013 – Bruce Harvey 6
We’ve all no doubt heard the line thrown back at us: “If you preservationists don’t want this building torn down, then why aren’t you putting your own money into it? How dare you tell a private owner that he can’t tear it down?” Read More
10 July 2013 – Matthew Barlow 6
The City of Boston took down the Boston Marathon Memorial on June 25. The memorial began life at the sites of the twin bombings on Boylston Street in the immediate aftermath of the explosions there on April 15. The city relocated the memorial to Copley Square once Boylston and surrounding streets re-opened to traffic the following week. Read More
09 July 2013 – editors
AWARDS: Charles Redd Award for excellence in exhibitions about the American West + Director’s Chair Award for outstanding achievement in museum profession, from Western Museums Association
DEADLINE: July 15, 2013
AWARDS: AALSH announces 2013 Leadership in History Award Recipients
CFP: (Dis)Memory of Disaster, Oct. Read More